Drawing specific attention to the State of Spec Mags survey! If you’re a speculative fiction magazine, take the time to fill it out ✍️

Vote for us for Best Cover Art! www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

BEHOLD! Our cover art for Issue 7 is an Aurora Award nominee for Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration! If you're a member of @csffa.bsky.social you can vote TODAY! We've been so lucky to work with Alice M -- Alice's work is consistently gorgeous and we'd love to see it rewarded.

SFFH has directly shaped the reality in which we currently find ourselves. It has THAT kind of power. We should be funding the places and people who interrogate, examine, grow, and direct its use for our collective benefit and wrestle it back from the chucklefucks abusing it.

🌈 We're here, we're queer, and we're trying to put together a third anthology of aromantic SFFH 🌈 Featuring 18 stories and poems with aromantic MCs! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... #PrideMonth #indiebooks #TBB

TODAY IS THE DAY! Our Common Bonds 3 campaign is officially launched, alongside the Summer Book Bazaar! Lovers of queer SFFH, come help us make this anthology a reality (and check out the other cool projects) ! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Reposting because it’s not just the latest releases that deserve love and attention 🥰 The below quote really does illustrate the beauty of the prose and the best of the driving elements in this story.

Final two days of the month for submissions to @heartlines-spec.com -- send us your stories and poems! Take us to new fantasy or sci-fi worlds, show us unique creatures or magic, captivate us with fascinating plots -- WITH characters who have known each other a long time in the midst of it all.

*ahem* Cursed rubies are fresh blood red, Cyborg hearts glow blue, 3 days remain for submissions Submit! We're eager to read you! (why yes, I'm a poet, thanks for asking)

Send us your words! We're open until the end of the month for submissions for Issue 11! We're looking for: 🌊 deep dives into SFF (not just surface level) 💗 established relationships 🍁more Canadian/Turtle Island submissions! www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

With FIYAH going on indefinite hiatus it's really fucking important we support the mags publishing POC. If you have the means, support the things you love or they will disappear. Everyone's probs sick as fuck of hearing it but a magazine for Black voices stopped publishing today, it isn't abstract.

Huge loss for our writing community. Reminder to please please support litmags

The long weekend may be over, but @heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions to the end of May! Send us YOUR stories and poems, and don't self-reject! Works MUST contain: ✅ Fantasy and/or Sci-fi 🪄🛸 ✅ a long-term relationship at the core (familial, platonic, or romantic) 🫂 Submit now!

For any @tricon-hfx.bsky.social attendees asking about submission reading… 👀👀👀

❤️❤️❤️

If anyone needs a good read 😭

surely, *surely* I know people with stories that fit yes? send them in (no, no I haven't written any of my own ideas for it yet 😭)

Look down, back up. It’s us asking for more submissions. (but make them SFF please, we’ve been getting a lot of anything but) www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

My poem in @heartlines-spec.com is free to read today! Writing this helped me laugh at a bad day. I hope that reading it could do the same for someone else🤖

Huge congrats to @heartlines-spec.com poets @mernadyerskinner.bsky.social and @brokenswanquill.bsky.social for getting shortlisted!!

✨ @heartlines-spec.com is open for submissions May 1 - 31 ✨ Send us your stories and poems, and don't self-reject! ✅ Fantasy and/or Sci-fi **WITH** ✅ a long-term relationship at the core (familial, platonic, or romantic) ⬇️ More guidelines ⬇️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Gooood morning friends! 💚 We are ✨thiiiis close✨ to hitting 50% of our base funding goal! Once that's secured we'll have our next volume LOCKED IN and we'll be able to set our sights on the future, and print! How far can we push this today? 👀

It's here! My poem about desire and hunger and destroying the thing you want by having it is free to read today on @heartlines-spec.com's website! So excited for this to be my first published poem. 😊💜 www.heartlines-spec.com/the-siren-af...

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

my latest short story, "Of ember and dust", is currently available to all @heartlines-spec.com ! we have lesbian capybara researchers, lots of (literal) fire and weird stuff www.heartlines-spec.com/of-ember-and...

Early submissions from equity-deserving groups are still open for @heartlines-spec.com April 23-30! Send us your stories and poems!! ✍️ ✅ Sci-fi and/or Fantasy **WITH** ✅ Long-term relationship (familial, platonic, or romance) ⬇️ More info ⬇️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Post something you’re proud of. “After Ever, Happily” in @heartlines-spec.com About why our stories may need a different ending, and how that can be just as beautiful as the HEA we know💕

While this wasn't the first @heartlines-spec.com short story I read, Dan Peacock's Italic & Bold is one I definitely remember vividly. The writing is excellent and the relationship is strong, and using fonts/format to its best advantage.

not me being like "wow, capybara researchers, how cool" when I saw this and not realizing it was about my own story at @heartlines-spec.com

My poem "Permission" is now free-to-read @heartlines-spec.com! I hope this cozy underwater poem about love, acceptance, and family gives you the warm-fuzzies. 💍🪸🌊 www.heartlines-spec.com/permission-b...

Rumours are true! We are now open for short fiction and poetry submissions from equity-deserving groups. Give us your words, your anxiety dreams of electric sheep, your last gasp of a dying star. As always: make it SFF, make it long-term www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Early submissions for @heartlines-spec.com are open!! Send me your poems 🍽️

BEEP BOOP, I am your computer mother telling you to read this.

My flash “The Three Mothers You Will Never Meet” is free to read today over at @heartlines-spec.com! Go check it out if you like linen, cropworlds, space stations, mothers that you may or may not ever meet, or avocados 🥑 www.heartlines-spec.com/the-three-mo...

Fire! Not-Death! Salt! Heartbreak! Thank you for the write-up on Of ember and dust by Anne Liberton ❤️🧂 The story from Issue 10 is available to subscribers but will be free-to-read on April 28th. www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-10/

Does my story warn of satellite catastrophe? Yes. Is it about leaving home, aging parents, and inevitability? Also yes. “The Impossibility of Fall Prevention” in issue 10 of @heartlines-spec.com. www.heartlines-spec.com/the-impossib...

My poem is free to read today in @heartlines-spec.com It'd mean a whole lot if you gave it a read. www.heartlines-spec.com/embodied-anc...

"There will be no more gossamer ballgowns and no more soot-stained rags and no more poisoned candy and candied poison, no more sisters to drive black-painted nails through my back and whisper, told you so" Read "BeCause" by @ympang.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com 🩸

My poem "BeCause" is available to read online in @heartlines-spec.com! Family, fairy tales, royalty, and witches: www.heartlines-spec.com/because-by-y... #poetry #Canadianpoetry #fairytales #darkfantasy

Our crops are watered 😍 Thrilled to see The Last Two Gardeners of Mars by Irene W Collins on the shortlist! www.heartlines-spec.com/the-last-two...

“Prediction doesn’t change the inevitable result of gravity, the weight of who we are.” One of my most personal stories, “The Impossibility of Fall Prevention” is brought to you by the awesome folks @heartlines-spec.com. I hope it speaks to you. www.heartlines-spec.com/the-impossib...

I have a poem I'm really proud of in here!🤖🎉

Thank you Rebecca!!

guess who has a short story here 😉

My weird, achy, sorta-cannibalistic poem "The Siren, After a Meal" is in this issue. I'm a published poet as of today! 💜

Does my story warn of satellite catastrophe? Yes. Is it the most personal story I have published to date? Also yes. Glad to be able to share it.

My little mermaid retelling (with 100% more frogs and the forever war) is in here! Very excited to share this with you all.

It's here! It's here! I'm a published poet!

New story day!

Happy pub day! 🌊🪸💍